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<pete@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1229797985snz@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> In article  <6r41pmFfdu6cU1@mid.individual.net>
>            dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:
>
> > I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
> > running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always
start
> > flowing immediately.
>
> How odd.  Which ROMP do you use?  Here it takes anywhere from a
> minute upwards to get a time response; I originally thought that
> it might be a DNS lookup problem, but plugging in a dotted quad
> directly (not recommended) makes no difference.  I too am running
> plain DOS 6.22 -- no MS Windows on this box!

Many thanks for your help with this problem.

My set up dials in on  0845 212 1666.

I am using GREMNOs Version v0.3D Large.  The time sets even quicker with
GREMNOS than  it ever did using the Demon supplied KA9Q.

The line in the autoexec.net file   which you suggest has been tried.  It
generates the error: "on attempt 1, 480 authentication required, nntp error
while getting news, response was 480, closing news session."

(snip)


> To the best of my knowledge, the Demon supplied KA9Q net.exe does
> not have the capability to authenticate the news connection, nor
> collect news by article number.  I use GremNOS (a drop in replacement
> for net.exe -- Simon will be here soon to provide a download link)
> but I think that YAN too can handle this.  NIN allows you to get
> news via NEWNEWS, all you need to do is grab a GremNOS net.exe
> and change the nntp command in autoexec.net from
�
The version of snews I am running is 1.30.  Could this have anything to do
with the connection problems with the news servers?



> nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 600
>
> to
>
> nntp addserver news.individual.net 600 user yourNINname yourNINpassword
>
> I believe too that the new Demon offering doesn't support
> mail2news (which the Demon snews does by default) -- for this you
> will need GremNOS or YAN (and manually fix your outgoing posts to
> mail2news@dcu or download a JohnWash version of snews that can do
> direct posting to news).
>
> > I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
> > contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I have
not
> > come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what
changes
> > to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation with
> > net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.
> >
> > Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.
> >
> > I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service
through
> > someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.
>
> That sounds like it might be a mail2news problem.  But rest
> assured that with the right net.exe and snews.exe you can receive
> and post to news via NIN.  Please post again if you're still
> having a problem or can't find the apps required -- someone will
> help.

Many thanks or your help.

Colin

<pete@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1229797985snz@nospam.demon.co.uk...
> In article  <6r41pmFfdu6cU1@mid.individual.net>
>            dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:
>
> > I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
> > running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always
start
> > flowing immediately.
>
> How odd.  Which ROMP do you use?  Here it takes anywhere from a
> minute upwards to get a time response; I originally thought that
> it might be a DNS lookup problem, but plugging in a dotted quad
> directly (not recommended) makes no difference.  I too am running
> plain DOS 6.22 -- no MS Windows on this box!
>
> > Since the changeover, of course, my KA9Q set-up has not been able to
access
> > news from Demon.  I know the reason for this but have not been able to
> > discover whether KA9Q can be used to access the news or, if so, how the
> > set-up can be changed so that it can be used to down load news from
Demon.
> > I have an account with Individual Net but cannot discover how or if KA9Q
is
> > able to do an authentication of a third party news service.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the Demon supplied KA9Q net.exe does
> not have the capability to authenticate the news connection, nor
> collect news by article number.  I use GremNOS (a drop in replacement
> for net.exe -- Simon will be here soon to provide a download link)
> but I think that YAN too can handle this.  NIN allows you to get
> news via NEWNEWS, all you need to do is grab a GremNOS net.exe
> and change the nntp command in autoexec.net from
>
> nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 600
>
> to
>
> nntp addserver news.individual.net 600 user yourNINname yourNINpassword
>
> I believe too that the new Demon offering doesn't support
> mail2news (which the Demon snews does by default) -- for this you
> will need GremNOS or YAN (and manually fix your outgoing posts to
> mail2news@dcu or download a JohnWash version of snews that can do
> direct posting to news).
>
> > I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
> > contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I have
not
> > come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what
changes
> > to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation with
> > net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.
> >
> > Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.
> >
> > I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service
through
> > someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.
>
> That sounds like it might be a mail2news problem.  But rest
> assured that with the right net.exe and snews.exe you can receive
> and post to news via NIN.  Please post again if you're still
> having a problem or can't find the apps required -- someone will
> help.
>
> Pete
>
> --
>    "We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
>     we have borrowed it from our descendants."